RUSSIA: Payolinski

The white-smocked women who push ice-cream
carts in the parks and squares of Moscow are state employees. The
peasants who peddle produce in open-market stands work for collective
farms. In theory, all the service and retail trades in Russia are
nationalized. But in fact, to judge by the most recent hue and cry in
the Moscow press, the entrepreneur in human nature is never dead, and a
moral smog hangs over Russia. In the world's most advanced socialist
state, private enterprise, profiteering, and just plain payoffs seem to
be bursting out all...